Welcome to The Simpsons Archive's episode guide. Episodes are
grouped by season and sorted in broadcast order. While premier
broadcast dates are given as a reference, you must refer to the
air dates chart for
information on all successive Fox network broadcast dates.

"G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad" - Homer chokes to death on a piece of
broccoli and his spirit must perform a good deed in order to enter heaven.

"Scary Tales Can Come True" - The dark side of fairy tale characters is exposed.

"Night of the Dolphin" - The world is overtaken by dolphins after Lisa frees their leader from
captivity.
Note: This episode aired before the "official" Season 12 premiere; as a result,
it is not "officially" considered to be part of any season, but a "special"

Eager to join "Dirt First" after witnessing their pro-vegetarianism
demonstration atop the local Krusty Burger franchise, Lisa attempts to
prove her worth by camping out in a giant redwood destined for logging.
Meanwhile, Bart joins the workforce in order to buy a new game console
advertised on television.

Short on funds, Homer approaches the ever-wealthy C. Montgomery Burns
for a token raise. But when Burns grants his request on the condition
that Homer act as his personal jester, the Simpson family finds
itself the subject of degrading and embarassing activities.

After realizing that he's missing the cyberspace boat, Homer plugs into
the internet and builds a web site. But when low traffic hits him where
it hurts, he resorts to spicing up his cyberslab with damaging gossip
concerning fellow townsfolk. Guest starring
Patrick McGoohan
as Prisoner #6.

When a large storm snows in Springfield Elementary, the children are
trapped inside for the holidays and soon rebel against Principal Skinner.

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When doctors find and remove a crayon lodged in Homer's brain, his
true IQ emerges, leading to a strong relationship with Lisa. But
his relationship with others falls out once his new-found competence
in safety inspecting leads to the closure of the Springfield Nuclear
Power Plant.

Following a prison rodeo, Marge befriends an inmate whom she considers
undeserving of incarceration, and eventually sees to his release.
Guest starring
Michael Keaton as
Jack, and
Charles Napier as
the prison warden.

Instead of buying a casket for his father, Homer uses the money to build a tennis court instead. Springfield wants to use the court for a tennis tournament, which all of the family members enter. But when teams are divided, the family gets competitive with each other, and they recruit professional tennis players to play in their places. Guest stars
Andre Agassi,
Pete Sampras,
Serena Williams, and
Venus Williams, all as themselves.

Upon learning that Krusty has erased all the archival tapes of his
show from the Sideshow Bob era, Bob schemes to use Bart as a manchurian
candidate to blow up Krusty live on the air. Guest starring
Kelsey Grammer as
Sideshow Bob.

When a talent agency discovers the musical abilities of Bart, Nelson,
Milhouse and Ralph, it scurries to set them up as the next big boy band
sensation, complete with a sinister subliminal propaganda campaign in
mind: "Join the Navy". Guest stars N'Sync.

In a Run, Lola, Run parody, a breakfast accident
involving Marge's kitchen knife and Homer's thumb is seen through the
eyes of individual family members. While Homer & Marge make a mad dash
for the hospital, Lisa takes her linguistic robot to the Springfield
science fair, and Bart runs afoul of Fat Tony's illegal fireworks ring.
Guest starring
Joe Mantegna as
Fat Tony.

When Ned discovers that one of Maude's goals was to build a bible-themed
amusement park, he reunites with Rachel in order to fulfill her
dream. But when an accident dupes the public into believing that the
park was the site of a miracle, Ned is forced to decide between revealing
the truth versus enjoying his increased profits. Guest starring
Shawn Colvin as
Rachel Jordan.

Homer injures himself while playing basketball at the YMCA, and needs surgery. While recovering at home, he
finds he is good at caring for pets and at babysitting the Flandereses' children, so much so that he starts
a daycare center which gets him nominated for a Good Guy award for service to the community.
But Bart and Lisa feel neglected through all of this, and are determined to thwart his award campaign.

A rail-riding hobo tells the tales of American legends, leading to Homer
imagine himself as Paul Bunyan, Lisa as Connie Appleseed versus the
wagon train pioneers, and Bart and Nelson as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn in a rafting adventure on the Mississip'.